Clothes-line prop



(No Model.)

s. v. D. WAGK. CLOTHES LINE PROP.

No. 427,642. Patented May 13, 1890.

@wi/Wwwwa 81 1410 flfo z attain these objects by the construction illus-,

section, showing one ot the branches of the edi-LAbovesaid shank it is forked/into two 'ing clothes-lines in an elevated position; and

a simple'and-inexpensive device to be inserted in the end of a'pole or of it slat of suitable upon a clothes-line and receive s'aidline in an eye formed by the crotch and the two ben t- UNITED STATES PATENT O FICE;-

sTAA'rs '.v.- n wAoK, F POI-NT PLEASANT, NEW JERSEY.

CLOTHES-LINE PROP.

srn'cu'xca'rron' forming part of Letters Patent N6. 427,642, dated May 13, 1890.

' Application filed March 12,1890. Serial 110,343,623. on model.)

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, STAATsV. D. WAoK, acitizen of the United States, residing at Point Pleasant, in the county of Ocean, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful-Improvements in Clothes-Line Props, of which the followingis aspecification, reference being had therein-1o the accompanyingdrawingsi v Myinvention relates to devices for supportthe objects of-inyin provements are to produce length, which device will be readily hooked over branches or hooks of different sizes. I

trated in the accompanying drawings, in which- M Figure 1 is a side 'view'of a portion of 'a-prop provided with a clothes-line-rctaining device constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a front viewof the sam'e 'partly inline-retaining device in engagement with said line. Fig.3 is also afrontview of the same with the cloth es-line in full engagement therewith.

positeend'of the pole, and to retain it firmly therein its shank b ispreferably SCYeWgthI'Gfldbran ches b b got unequal len gths, th at are bent over in opposite directions to fonmsemicircular hooks-the points I) b 'of which extend be yond and in a plane tangent-to the'back of the companion hook, as shown in Fig,'1,-andsaid pointsare'also divergent laterallyifrohr, if v the bod yof said hooks, asshown inFigs; 2 and" 1" The space between thebranehesb andvb clothes-line O,

is of a suflicient size to readily receive the.

The advantages obtained by this construe-i tion over the props having only the fork at.

theend'thereof, or over those having an up per andlower lip to each hook, are the facilityv with which this device is made-to engage with a clothes-line, even in thedark, or when the jline is swaying in the wind, or is out of reachf of a persons hap ds to steady it, as theupper' end of this prop can be broiightto bear against] the side of the line and be drawnbaok until the hook b is made to engage with it, as shown in Fig. 2. The prop is then givena quarter of a turn and slightly lifted. att-he sametinie'to bring the line under both books, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and when supporting the line the latter rests upon the crotch of, the fork between the branches 1) b", and is prevented v, from leaving said position by thp bent-over f v v o Having now fully described-myinvention,I

portions of said branches.

elaim- A clothes-line'prop consistin'g ofa pole, a1 shank inserted therein and having two bent? over branches, formin g two hooks of different sizes and facing inopposite directions, the: 7 points of'each hook being divergent andefir t e tending beyond the plane of thebackof other hook,substantiaillfy'as described H. HJROBBINS.

In testimony whereof I aflix mysignatureliioz I 

